About

Dr Sandersan Onie is a researcher at the Black Dog Institute and the founding President of the Indonesian Association for Suicide Prevention. He studies scalable approaches to suicide prevention and works with governments and the WHO to implement them globally. For example, he leads for Indonesia’s First Suicide Prevention Strategy and made state-level suicide data publicly available for the first time in history, led the development of the first religio-mental health declaration for destigmatisation at G20 2022, and is currently developing an instantaneously delivered suicide intervention using search advertising. He is a Guinness World Records holder in mental health, for most users on an online mental health awareness lesson. His work is widely recognized, having published in world leading scientific journals, and featured in outlets such as Forbes Magazine, SBS, Mashable and ABC.